Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
(AP) Afghan bomber attacks near major US baseBy AMIR SHAHThe Associated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the attacker and three Afghans,
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The head of Syria’s military police has defected from the army and declared allegiance to the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to a video and a Syrian security source. The high-level defection, while not a strategically
(AP) Shinzo Abe returns as Japan’s prime ministerBy ERIC TALMADGEAssociated PressTOKYOOld-guard veteran Shinzo Abe was voted back into office as prime minister Wednesday and immediately named a new Cabinet, ending three years of liberal administrations and restoring power to his
(Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has signed into law a new Islamist-drafted constitution he says will help end political turmoil and allow him to focus on fixing the fragile economy. Anxiety about the deepening economic crisis has gripped Egypt
Russia’s upper house of parliament was due Wednesday to vote for a bill barring Americans from adopting the country’s children, in retaliation for a new piece of human rights legislation in the US. The highly contentious bill has inflamed tensions
Even Egyptians who are pro-Palestinian, but have a moderate attitude towards Israel get targeted by Islamists in Egypt. Maikel Nabil Sanad, 27, is a well-known Egyptian blogger who said there are a number of Egyptians who favor peace with Israel:
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The Gun Control Fantasy Andrew Sullivan’s proposed solution to gun violence The Metastasis of Corruption and Violence The Gun Control Fantasy Gun control is one of those issues that politicians use to bash eachother
By DALIA NAMMARIAssociated PressBETHLEHEM, West BankPilgrims and locals celebrated Christmas Day on Tuesday in the ancient Bethlehem church built over the site where tradition holds Jesus was born, candles illuminating the sacred site and the joyous sound of prayer filling
The tyranny is in full swing in Egypt, where the government has now banned anyone wanting to leave the country from taking more than $10,000 with them. This is the same measure used by the government of Iran to prevent
As it turns out, the children of Great Britain understand far better than their parents the reasons for the collapse of Western Civilization: lack of children, and lack of two-parent heterosexual homes. A poll of British parents showed that topping
As U.S. troops in Afghanistan gathered around long tables for Christmas dinner with their “second family” so many thousands of miles from home, all of us at Breitbart News wanted to take time to wish them a Merry Christmas. And
(AP) TEHRAN, IranAn Iranian semi-official news agency says there has been another cyberattack by the sophisticated computer worm Stuxnet, this time on the industries in the country’s south. Tuesday’s report by ISNA quotes provincial civil defense chief Ali Akbar Akhavan as
Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled the final extension of a new $25 billion oil pipeline to the Pacific that underscores the energy power’s gradual shift away from stagnant European markets. The East Siberia – Pacific Ocean (ESPO) link is also
(AP) UNITED NATIONSThe U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to hold a conference in March to try to reach agreement on a U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. A resolution approved late Monday by a vote of 133-0
By ERIC TALMADGEAssociated PressTOKYOJapan’s prime-minister-to-be announced his top lieutenants on Tuesday and promised his conservative party will pursue fresh policies to tackle the nation’s chronic economic woes and bolster its sagging influence on the international stage. Shinzo Abe, who led
(AP) VATICAN CITYHere is the official Vatican English translation of the “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas Day message read in Italian by Pope Benedict XVI Tuesday. “Urbi et Orbi” is Latin for to “The city and to the world.” ____ Dear brothers
(AP) Pope decries slaughter of ‘defenseless’ SyriansBy FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressVATICAN CITYPope Benedict XVI wished Christmas peace to the world Tuesday, decrying the slaughter of the “defenseless” in Syria and urging Israelis and Palestinians to find the courage to negotiate. Delivering
(AP) Afghanistan: Woman who killed American is IranianKABUL, AfghanistanAn Afghan official says the policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is an Iranian who came to Afghanistan 10 years ago with her husband and obtained a fake ID through
Late yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly approved a 5% budget increase for 2012-2013–with half of the additional spending going towards the UN’s “political missions,” which typically handle peacemaking and conflict resolution. In a time of global austerity, the UN’s
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Americans should thank ‘Made in China’ for a Merry Christmas Vatican displays a low-cost Nativity scene Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Americans should thank ‘Made in China’ for a Merry Christmas According to
Last July when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Egypt she was met with widespread protest from Coptic Christians and secular activists objecting to what they all believed was the Obama administration’s role in helping the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
Jon Hammar, the twenty-seven year old Marine who was imprisoned in the notorious CEDES jail in Mexico for four months, arrived home at his parents’ home in Florida Monday in time for Christmas. His mother Olivia, when she heard that Mexico
In his Christmas homily this evening, Pope Benedict XVI invited Christians to consider the passage in the Gospel of John in which Mary and Joseph arrive in Bethlehem only to find there was no room at the inn “because his
On behalf of the entire staff of Breitbart News, I wish all of our readers, contributors, fans–and foes!–a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our thoughts are especially with the men and women of the U.S. armed forces
North Korea on Monday criticised a display of Christmas lights staged by a South Korean church group near the tense border as an “unacceptable provocation”. The giant display — featuring thousands of glittering bulbs on a tree-shaped steel tower —
